(formerly Analytical Adam) Jewish male who tries to share some of the ideas of the bible who is an accountant who is sharing some of his experiences in his day to day life currently working for an Egyptian company and a Greek company. Not what I thought growing up. Single and in my late 30's. Also looking for my helpmate although a little shy. Any comments email is: alk0713@yahoo.com

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Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Hugo Chavez and Anti-semitism.

From
the Wikipedia entry on Hugo Chavez in which he also created much hatred
of Jews in the country during his rule which wasn't common before his
rule. Allegations of antisemitism. From wikipedia.

On 24
December 2005, Chávez stated that "[t]he world is for all of us, then,
but it so happens that a minority, the descendants of the same ones that
crucified Christ, the descendants of the same ones that kicked Bolívar
out of here and also crucified him in their own way over there in Santa
Marta, in Colombia. A minority has taken possession all of the wealth of
the world."[238] Accusations of antisemitism have been leveled against
Chávez because of these comments.[239] However, Steve Rendall and Jim
Naureckas of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting questioned that
interpretation, which they said was largely claimed by right-wing
opinion journals.[240]

According to a report documenting hundreds of antisemitic actions of the police and other government
offices, the creation of a newly formed antisemitic rhetoric in
government sponsored newspapers and the rise of antisemitic attacks
against Jewish people and Jewish organisations, in a country that was
totally lacking all these phenomena before Chávez, points to his
personal involvement in active antisemitism. Examples of this sentiment
include two government raids in the Jewish school of Caracas where they
searched for evidence of weapons or subversive activity: one raid in the
morning of November 29, 2004, as elementary school children began their
studies, and a second raid during a wedding in one of the school's
halls in the evening of December 2, 2007.[241]

Chávez accused
the opposition of working for Jewish interests, stating that "don't let
yourselves be poisoned by those wandering Jews."[242][243]

Roughly half of the Jewish population of Venezuela left the country during his rule.[244] Policy overview